Epidemic
[epɪ'demɪk] or [,ɛpɪ'dɛmɪk]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) a widespread outbreak of an infectious disease; many people are infected at the same time.
(adj.) (especially of medicine) of disease or anything resembling a disease; attacking or affecting many individuals in a community or a population simultaneously; 'an epidemic outbreak of influenza' .
編輯:拉维恩--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(a.) Alt. of Epidemical
(n.) An epidemic disease.
(n.) Anything which takes possession of the minds of people as an epidemic does of their bodies; as, an epidemic of terror.
欧内斯特整理
同義詞及近義詞：
a. General, prevailing, prevalent, pandemic.
編輯:维姬
解釋/意思:
adj. affecting a community at a certain time: general.—n. Epidem′ic a disease falling on great numbers in one place simultaneously or in succession.—adv. Epidem′ically.—n. Epidemiol′ogy the science of epidemics.
阿黛尔編輯
娱乐性解釋/意思：
To dream of an epidemic, signifies prostration of mental faculties and worry from distasteful tasks. Contagion among relatives or friends is foretold by dreams of this nature.
錄入:谢里夫
例句/造句/用法:
- He looked like a walking-West-Indian-epidemic. 威爾基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
- America had also received the taint; and, were it yellow fever or plague, the epidemic was gifted with a virulence before unfelt. 瑪麗·雪萊. 最後一個人.
- Gibbon couples the Justinian epidemic with the great comet of 531, and with the very frequent and serious earthquakes of that reign. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- Gregory, let me recommend to your attention this singular epidemic among the sheep. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯回憶錄.
- Homesickness was abroad in the ship--it was epidemic. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- Epidemic diseases, I believed, were often heralded by a gasping, sobbing, tormented, long-lamenting east wind. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 維萊特.
- But the grand question was still unsettled of how this epidemic was generated and increased. 瑪麗·雪萊. 最後一個人.
- Having adjusted such spectacles the Commission proceeded to look at this curse which is more blasting than any plague or epidemic, at an evil which spells only ruin to the race. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- It was called an epidemic. 瑪麗·雪萊. 最後一個人.
- Yet the death of each of its constituent members is as certain as if an epidemic took them all at once. 約翰·杜威. 民主與教育.
- However, they must keep epidemics away somehow or other, and fumigation is cheaper than soap. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- The prevention of disease epidemics is one of the most striking achievements of modern science. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科學通論.
亚历克斯編輯